Apparatus for catching liquid samples



Aug. 31, 1937. N. FERRAEZ, JR

APPARATUS FOR CATCHING LIQUID SAMPLES Filed July 29, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Allg- 1937- N. FERRAEZ, JR

APPARATUS FOR CATCHING LIQUID SAMPLES Filed July 29, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Aug. 31, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE APPARATUS FOR CATCHING LIQUID SAIWPLES 5 Claims.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in an apparatus for testing and sampling liquids and is a furthering of the improvements disclosed in my co-pending application for the improvements in a system and apparatus for collecting and testing sediments of liquids, now Patent 2,055,252. The present application however disclosing improvements over my prior application which includes an improved and simplified entraining system for entraining the liquid which is to be tested and in addition includes an attachment for catching and retaining a sample of the liquid for grading purposes.

The primary object of the invention is in providing a sample collecting attachment in the system or apparatus which is acted on and operated simultaneous with the entraining of the liquid body which is to be tested for sediments.

Another object of the invention is in providing an improved operating apparatus which may be made cooperable with a sediment testing container.

Other and further objects will appearin the specification and be specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, exemplifying the invention, and in which:-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus used in carrying out the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical longitudinal fragmentary sectional elevation of a portion of Fig. 1, through the sediment testing and sample collecting devices.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken. approximately on the line III-III of Fig. 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section taken approximately on the line IV-IV of Fig. 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal section taken approximately on the line V-'V of Fig. 1. I

In the accompanying drawings, I designates a frame supporting a table 2 and mounted in the frame is a cross. member 3 and vertically secured between said cross member and the under side of the table 2 is a stationarily Slidable on the rod 4 is a cross-head 5 having a side extension 6 and fixed to said side extension is an extension rod I which passes upwardly through the table 2 and is slidable in the guide 8 which is secured to the under side of the table. Fixed to the upper end of the rod 1 above the table 2 is an arm 9, said arm being for the support of the liquid testing container II].

The cross-head 5 is normally held at the upper held guide rod 4.

end of the guide rod 4 in abutment with the rubber bumper I I by the coil spring I2 which underengages the cross-head, said spring being held in position on the guide rod by the set collar I3. Laterally extending from the cross-head 5 is a pin I4 and connected on said pin is a spring-link I5 which is secured at its lower end to the foot tubular glass cylinderr22 which is closed at its upper end by the head 23 and at its lower end by the head 24, the head 24 being threadingly secured in the arm 9 and the cylinder 22 being secured between the heads 23 and 24 by the tie rod 25 which connects said heads. The cylinder head 24 is provided with a spout end 26 and formed therein is a valve seat 21 for a ball check 28, said ball check being held against said seat by the spring 29 which is held in position by the internal nut 30. Secured to one side of the spout 26 and in connection therewith is an angle valve 3| and connected with the depending end thereof is a hose length 32 which connects with the branch 33 of the hose nozzle 34.

The nozzle 34 is secured to and depended from a disc supporting socket 35, said socket being seated in the table 2 and having a countersunk part 36 in which a perforated metallic disc 31 is mounted.

The nozzle 34 is provided with a branch 38 to which a discharge hose length 39 is connected, said hose length 39 being entrained to a receptacle 40 which may be disposed beneath the table 2.

The head 23 of the cylinder 22 of the container I0 is provided with avalve housing 4!, said housing providing communication to the cylinder and located in said housing is an outlet check valve 42 and communicating with said valve housing 4| is a liquid supply line 43 and disposed in said supply line in proximity to the valve housing M is a sample retaining device 44.

The device 44 comprises a glass cylinder 45 which is retained by upper and lower heads 46 and 41 respectively by an interiorly disposed ver- I provided with a bore 5| and a transverse opening 52 in communication with the bore 5|. The

lower head 41 of the device 44 is provided with a bore 53 having interior threads 54 at its lower end and a valve seat 55 secured in the threads 54 having upwardly extending projections 56 for normally sustaining a ball check 51 which is mounted in the bore 53 of the head 41.

The valve seat 55 forms a part of a nozzle 58, the passageway of said nozzle extending through the valve seat and attached to said nozzle is a hose length 59 which is secured at its depending end to a holder 60 which is supported by the table 2, the depending end of the hose length 59 being disposed above a receptacle 6| mounted on" the table 2.

The cylinder head 23 of the container II]: is;

also provided with a communicating elbow 62 and connected with said elbow is a pipe nipple 64 and connected to the extending end of said nipple is a hose length 65 which is connected at its other end with a pipe line 66, said pipe line at its other end connecting with an ejector 67 and in said pipeline is a control valve 68.

Leadingto and connecting with the. ejector 61 is an air pressure supply pipe 69 and in said,

pipe forwardly of the ejector 61 is a control valve 10, the control valve 68, of the pipe line 66 being disposed in said pipe line forwardly of the ejector 61. Connected with the pipe 69 forwardly of the control valve 15 thereof is a branch pipe H which leads to and connects with a controlvalve 12 and extending from said valve is a pipe 13 which communicates with a pipe 14 which connects the pipeline 66. and the supply pipe 69, said pipe 14 being connected to thepipe line 66 by the T-fitting l5 and disposed in said pipe 14 between the pipes 69 and 1.3, is ahand operative valve 16. 1 I

The T-fitting T5 is provided with an, interiorly disposed partition Tl having an aperture 18 formed therein, said partition being mounted in the T-fittingwhen the. pipe. 14 is connected to the fitting, the partition ll. being held in position in' the T-fitting by abutment of the. end of the pipe 14 therewith (Fig. 5). The aperture 18 provides for communication between the pipe 14 and 5 form in their construction and comprising a spring actuated valve 86, each having. aprotrudingvalve stem 8| as shown in- Fig. 4, said valve stems adapted to be cyclically operated by respectivecam surfaces 63a, Ma and 'lzarespectively of the revoluble member 82 (see 3 in the manner described in my co-pending application aforesaid.

In the operation of this improved apparatus, a sediment test disc A is placed: on the perforated metallic disc 31 and the container 10- is. lowered by the operator pressing the lever l6 down until the catching portion 20 'of the latch l9 underengages the bar 2| of the frame I, this lowering operation causing the spring link IE to move the cross head 5 against the pressure of the coil spring I 2, and the cross head drawing the rod 1 and container litldownward for tightly engaging the mouth of the spout 26 of the container against the sediment test disc'A.

A source of air pressure from which the supply pipe 69 leads ismaintained and, the member 82 is revolved and the cam surfaces 68a, and Ma on account of them being similarly positioned. on the-member 82' and forwardly of thecam surface 12a, will simultaneously engage respectivevalve stems 8| of the control valves 68 and 16. The opening of the valve of the control valve it] will permit compressed air to be discharged from the pipe 69 through the ejector El, the operating of the ejector simultaneously creating a suction in the pipe line 66.

The suction created in the pipe line 66 will move the valve 42 of the valve housing 8| from its seat, thus creating a partial vacuum in the container l0 and the liquid supply line 43 in which the device 44 is located. The supply line 43 is provided with an extending flexible hose 43a,

to be engaged in a body of liquid such as milk to be tested and contained in the receptacle 6! for 'theientrainment of a part of the milk from the container l0. As the member 32 is revolved, obviously the cam surfaces 68a and ma will ride away from the valve stems 8| with which they have been cooperating thus permitting the valves seer the control valves 68 and 16 to be spring pressed. into closedposition, this closing of the valves occurring when the container it] is ap proximately filled with the liquid or milk, as pre-determined by the time length of dwell or engagement of the cam surfaces 68a and Ida against the valve stems 8| of the control valves 68 and 10', and so that the'container it) Will not fillto overflowing intothe pipe line 66.

As the member 82 continues to revolve towards the completion of a one revolution cycle, the cam surface 12a will engage the valve stem 8| of the control valve 12 thus opening said valve and perill mitting air pressure, to be entrained from the supply pipe 69, through the pipe H and the continuing pipe 13, through the pipe M to the pipe line (5|;v into the container ii! on top of the entrained liquid in said container, the air pressure 5 on the liquid in the container forcing the ball check 28 from its seat 21 and discharging the liquid through the nozzle 26 and the sediment test disc A,, the sediment test disc retaining sediments of the liquid as the liquid is forced there through to discharge through: the nozzle 34 and hose length 39; back into the receptacle 4c.

During the time the suction was created in the suction being discontinued in the pipe line 66, the a ball check valve-5'! of the device 44 simultaneously dropped by gravity, from its closed position with the bore 5| of the member 48 on to the projections'56 of the valve seat 55, thereby permitting the liquid in the cylinder 45 of the device 44 to be detrained therefrom through the nozzle 58 and the hose length 59' where it was received by "the receptacle 6| on the table 2.

After the liquid has been entrained into the container l0 and the device 44 and subsequently discharged therefrom, the operator will swing the latch 9 of the lever l6 for disengaging the catch ing portion 26 of said latch from engagement with the bar 2| and upon release of the lever H5 Joy-the operator, the coil spring |2 will force the cross head 5 upwardly, thereby elevating the container ID to the position shown in Fig. l-for permitting removal of the test disc A for examination purposes for determining the foreign matters training and expelling whichimay be present in the sediment collected in the'disc. i

.The elevating-of the co tainer Hi also provides accessibility for the placing of other sediment collecting discs on the perforated disc 37 for carrying on subsequent disc tests.

The .revcluble member 82 having the cam surfaces 68a,'-1Ba and 12a is adapted to be stopped after each revolution in a manner similar as shown and described in my pending application aforesaid as but one revolution of the member 82 is required for carrying out the operation of enthe'liquid to be tested, to and from the container H] and the sample col lecting device 44.

-In additionto collectingthe sediment from the liquid by forcingit through the disc A, additional testing is made by the use of the sample retaining or collecting device 44 which collects a portion of 20 the liquid at the time the container M! was sup-- plied and which collected liquid portion is discharged from the device 44 into the receptacle 6! simultaneous with the discharge of the liquid from the container Hi. This collecting of small 25 quantities or samples of liquid, such as milk, is

for subsequent use in analyzing the milk for grading purposes in which daily samples from the same dairy may be collected for about ten days in order to provide a composite of the collected samples for acquiring a grade average.

'In order to prevent too great a force of air pressure into the container l0 through the pipe line 66 when the control valve 12 is operated, the partition Tl in the T-fitting 15 having the reduced opening or aperture 18 is provided. This reduced opening permits a gradual building up of the pressure on the liquid in the container ll which is to be discharged so that the sediment which may be contained in the liquid can be captured by the disc A and not forced through the disc as it would be in the event that too great an inrush of air was entrained on the liquid.

As the dwelling time length of the cam surface 12a on the valve stem 8| of the control valve 12 45 is limited, it may be that the sediment content is so great that sufficient air pressure for forcing the liquid through the test disc A, was not applied to the liquid drawn into the container ill, during a particular operation. Under a circum- 50 stance of this character, the valve 16 in the pipe 74 is hand operated to open position so that sufficient air pressure from the supply pipe 69 can be admitted to the pipe line 65, to force the heavy sediment ladened liquid from the container Hi,

55 through the test disc, and after which the valve iii is closed.

In some instances where milk is being tested it is found that the milk is so thick in sediment content that all of the milk in the container M cannot be forced through the collecting disc A and in this event, a by-pass structure is provided which comprises a hand operated angle valve 3! having communication with the interior of the spout 26 and the hose length 32 connected to the branch 33 of the nozzle 34. For discharging the sediment ladened milk left in the container Ill, the valve 3! is operated and the liquid is permitted to be entrained through the hose length 32 into the nozzle 34 from where it is discharged through the hose length 33 and returned to the receptacle 40.

In the event that it is only required to acquire samples of the liquid or milk by the use of the collecting or retaining device 44, a perforated gasket or apertured gasket washer is mounted on the perforated disc 31 instead of the collecting disc A and the container I0 is held in lowered position with the nozzle 26 tightly engaging the interposed gasket by bar 2| and the apparatus is operated in the same manner as heretofore with respect to the revolving member 82 and'the cam surfaces thereon engaging respective-control valves 68, I0 and 12, for entraining the liquid into the container [0 and subsequently discharging it through the interposed apertured gasket, direct to the receptacle ll Alsothe liquid collected in the device 44 will of course be discharged therefrom as heretofore and at thetime-that discharge liquid in the'container l0, and liquid collected in the device 44 will obviously be discharged therefrom by gravity into the receptacle 6| for sampling purposes.

With further regard to the retaining receptacle or device 4 3, the vertical member 48 thereof provides a bafiiing effect on the liquid entrained therein, as it is drawn through the supply line 43, this bailling effect on the liquid, disturbing and ridding the device 44 of the remains, if any, of a previous liquid content and carrying such liquid to the place of discharge or overflow through the container ID.

This method or manner" of operation of the invention for sampling purposes is brought about by disposing the container ID in an intermediate position between the vacuum forming means of the pipe line 66 and the liquid sampling receiving device M in the pipe line 66, so that the container it will receive the first surge or overflow of liquid the latch l9 engaging the is made of the from the receptacle 4|] from which the sample is E to be taken, the container l0 therefore trapping and preventing liquid reaching the vacuum forming means by reason of the predetermined time length of dwell or engagement of the cam surfaces i580 and Illa required to draw in a limited quantity of liquid in the container l0.

While one illustrative embodiment of the invention has been. described in detail, it is not my intention to limit its scope to that particular embodiment or otherwise than by the terms of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

l. A device for catching liquid samples comprising a suction conduit, a container disposed in said conduit and forming a part thereof, said container having a discharge passageway at its lower end, a gravity actuated valve cooperable to close the passageway when liquid is being entrained through said conduit, means for intermittently entraining liquid through the conduit, and check valve controlled overflow means disposed in said conduit between the container and the liquid entraining means.

2. A device for catching liquid samples comprising a container having a comparably large discharge passageway for providing rapid and complete discharge of the liquid drawn into the container, a gravity actuated valve cooperable to close the passageway when liquid is being entrained into the container, means having cooperable relation with the container for intermittently entraining liquid therein, and cooperable overflow discharging means located between the container and said liquid entraining means.

3. A device for catching liquid samples comprising a container having a relatively large passageway comparable with the size of the container for providing rapid and complete discharge of liquid from the container, an inlet through which liquid is entrained to the container, a grravity actuated valve cooperable to close the passageway when liquid is entrained through the inlet, means having cooperable relation with the container for intermittently entraining liquid therein through the inlet thereof, and cooperable ov'erfiow means intermediately disposed between the liquid entraining means and said container.

4. An apparatus for catching liquid samples comprising a suction conduit, a catching receptacle disposed in said conduit and forming a part thereof, means having cooperable relation with said conduit for intermittently entraining liquid therethrough, and cooperable overflow means intermediately disposed between the liquid entraining means and said receptacle, said recep- NICOLAS FERRAEZ,, JR. 

